Challenge: 4 Moon
Gives Memory: Fear when read. Unlocked the Wolf Stories skill.
Contents
Van Driel describes odd events in Vienna - the disappearance of children; epidemics of parasite activity; animal mutilations; nightmares of worms; the activities of a charitable organisation, the New Ligeians, that funds the burial of the poor. She proposes peculiar connections between these activities.
When the individual K. attends the meetings, black dogs are sacrificed and quartered. When the element M. is in attendance, black mares are found with their throats slashed. I propose that these sacrifices are not necessary, but that our Ligeian friends may consider them ‘fitting’. Herewith diagrams of the mutilations -‘
Medusa’s Riddle, then, I choose to render as ‘What is Not Seen?’ There is another riddle, one I have heard rendered as ‘What may be Lost?’ I will delineate some historic attempts to answer it- these are in themselves, in some sense, sacrifices - ’